St. Elias of Cologne, Abbot

16 April

Died 1042; Montague marks his feast as April 12. Elias was an Irishman
from County Monaghan who became a monk and, in 1020, abbot of the Gaelic
abbey of Saint Martin the Great at Cologne, Germany. The archbishop also
placed the abbey of Saint Pantaleon under his care
(Benedictines,
Montague).